Google said it had begun offering the deals from local businesses in Austin, Texas, Boston, Denver, Seattle, and the nation’s capital, Washington.
Google launched a test of the service called Google Offers in Portland, Oregon, in June and expanded it to San Francisco and New York a month later.
Google’s offers on Wednesday included $10 dollars worth of food and drink for $5 at a Mexican restaurant in Austin and $20 dollars worth of merchandise for $5 at the Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver.
Google’s expansion of Google Offers comes less than two weeks after social network titan Facebook announced that it was ending a similar Facebook Deals program launched in April.
Facebook began testing deals in April in five US cities — Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, San Diego, and San Francisco — in a bid to expand its revenue stream beyond advertising and carve out a niche in the growing online bargain space.
Chicago-based Groupon has enjoyed a spectacular rise since its founding in 2008 and rejected a reported $6 billion takeover offer from Google last year.
Groupon announced plans in June to go public but The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that it was re-evaluating the plans because of the volatility in the stock market.
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